Knotty Love Triangle: After a story narration by a director in Ranjish Hi Sahi, he is told that he has just joined together bits and pieces of other films. This is…

Riotous Rajneeti: The not-so-humble upstart, Nograj, has had quite a journey from radio to YouTube to cinema in the form of the successful  2018 Kannada film Humble Politiciann Nograj, directed by…

Avneesh Mishra brought his group,  Rangshila, back on stage after the long lockdown break, with Iss Desh Ka Yaaro Kya Kehna, a satire written by Lakshmikant Vaishnav. “This pandemic period…

Fearless Femme Fatales : A young woman called Anarkali, who defies her powerful lover over a small matter, is literally walled into a tiny space, much like her namesake in…

Annus Horribilis: Humour could be the only way of coping with the troubles and absurdities of the year gone by. Carrying on the tradition set with last year’s satirical Death To…

The Lucy-Desi Show: At the peak of her popularity, the Lucille Ball-starrer TV show, I Love Lucy, had 60 million viewers, which gave her the freedom to overrule the director sometimes and…

The Making Of A Superstar: On Rajesh Khanna’s birth anniversary, a flashback to one of his first films. Jatin Khanna, an ordinary young man from Mumbai, made it to the…

Three And A Half Musketeers: The new book by Amor Towles, after the bittersweet A Gentleman In Moscow (2016), is a wonderful reaffirmation of friendship and faith, in the form…

In his two period novels, which will hopefully expand into a long-running series, Vaseem Khan has created a wonderful character, Persis Wadia, the first female police officer in newly independent…

Those Grey Areas: It is difficult to convert white collar crime into interesting cinema, unless it is a well-known scam that affects a large number of people, which is why…